Lockergnome Critique
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Paul Scrivens has written one of his famous critiques of the Lockergnome redesign. He covers the redesign point by point with far more detail than I have, taking a multidisciplinary approach. He loses his cool at one point, but try to understand this is incredibly frustrating.
What’s strange is there hasn’t been a peep out of Lockergnome regarding any of this. Aren’t they plugged in to customer feedback?I think a simple statement or clarification would do a lot to clear things up. Though in the comments some people have used names of people at Lockergnome, it isn’t at all about that. This is simply a matter of supporting companies and organizations you can respect and routing around ones you can’t.
When I go to a museum I know every artist is trying to communicate a message to me and I rather him try to do it through a painting then through those summaries under the painting (RSS feeds).
That’s a very elegant way of putting it. Site design will always matter.
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Unsure if you are aware of this, but Chris Pirillo posted to his personal weblog that they’re working on another design which is more standards-compliant (although it appears to still use tables). He includes a link to a test version.
Personally, I still don’t think it’s as nice as their previous design but the underlying code is somewhat better.